Have students describe a time when they have overcome adversity, and demonstrated curiosity. In addition: To interpret the following quotes:
"If you think education is expensive , try ignornace." A Mc Intyree
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Fredrick Douglass
"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." Margaret Mead
"A rose that grew from concrete." Tupac
"When you know better, you do better." Maya Angelou
"Be impeccable with your word." and
"Don't take anything personally." The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz - Montoya
My favorite education quote: Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance." Albert Einstein- LF
There is a great book Karen Taylor told be about concerning the skills like time management and determination. You can download a free sample to your iPad too- The Slight Edge forTeens by John Olson - joz ps- it has a letter to parents at the beginning that serves as a call to action... I am on my iPad so I will learn to copy and paste .
“Dear Parent,
A startling number of young people say they aren’t motivated to achieve, don’t know how to plan or make decisions, and don’t feel a sense of purpose.
That’s why Stuart Johnson created the SUCCESS Foundation. He believes that young men and women thrive best when they first understand themselves and then apply that knowledge to the world around them. He wanted a way to illustrate the importance of clarifying goals, practicing the small efforts necessary for success, and accepting responsibility for one’s own destiny.
We believe that every teen needs to be directed toward a path that enables them to achieve their goals, pursue careers, and become productive citizens. The tools for enhancing skills such as goal setting, dream-building, self-motivation, time management, and creating high self-esteem and a sense of purpose are so very important but often not taught in school. The SUCCESS Foundation believes that providing today’s youth with personal development resources such as SUCCESS for Teens will help them reach their full potential.
I encourage you to share the fundamental life-skills and personal-development philosophies found in these pages and at www.SUCCESSFoundation.org with your teen. Together, we can help make a[…]”
Excerpt From: Jeff Olson, Al Desetta, John David Mann & The SUCCESS Foundation. “SUCCESS for Teens.” SUCCESS Books. iBooks.
I am most interested in ways to find out what a students does when they do not get immediate satisfaction...If we give the students interview questions before the interview, who will practice them? What parents are willing to help them prepare? -DeAnda
A task (or series of) that would reveal contents of character such as determination, grit and tenacity but also reveal thought process and problem-solving skills (The game I showed is called Flow Free, a free app for Ipad/Iphone) ~Rancourt
Possibly use some of the "grit test" questions? -Fillingham I think it is important that as their support, we need to understand the way our students live- many take care of siblings when they get home, some deal with addicted parents, others hold jobs to contribute to the family income, and all factors like these have a tremendous impact on the study habits, self esteem, and homework finishing abilities. Many of our parents are supportive by holding two or three jobs, which means there is no one to check if homework is getting done. When TV is blaring in the apartment, and you don't have a quiet place to study, it becomes a challenge. When parents can't afford internet and homework involving technology is given, how does that affect our students? Hunger and issues at with home life are of course a consideration. I agree, we should give them GRIT tests, and equally, we should consider sensitivity training for staff. I think we should also consider an essay prompt given to them ahead of time by their school as part of the application process. This might provide us some insight into their specific lives. - Jozette
Part of trying to find those who have GRIT to overcome that situtation and they are driven to not let that homelife define them, CEC gives them options, resources and support to be successful
Interview Ideas for Parents:
I think having parents answer and interpret the questions and quotes listed above would be good indicators of character and thus acceptence to CEC - Montoya
While the students are interviewing, have the presentation for parents ~Rancourt
I think it is important to have the parents involved- having a set requirement for attendance to 2 after school activities was discussed during our meeting... maybe we should play with this idea more. -Fillingham
I like the quotes above-
I like the quotes too but I think that using quotes favro students that have had the best lit backgrounds over students who have grit. If we give them the quotes before the interview, then we could get a clear indication of who spent the time to prepare
other comments Wow! Hearing and discussing this stuff provokes so much thought as a teacher/parent/former student. I started to contirbute to this on Friday afternoon and just couldn't put my thoughts together at the time and but after reading the letter from 'Slight Edge for Teens' from above it seems to have clarified my thoughts a bit because parts of it come so close to my perspective. The letter clearly identifies the parent as a resource and encourages them to acknowledge their roles in the promotion of self, goal setting, life skills...... for their children. That brings me to our parents. No.... not OUR parents. Our CEC student parents because they are very different in fact than were our parents. Many, if not most of us had very different experiences and not that our upbringing and supports were perfect and that there weren't things that we needed to overcome but I'm pretty sure that they were very different than that of the current and likely incoming students at CEC. If we don't believe that, we need only to look at the districts upcoming mandated ELL training for teachers (though I've heard that members of the school board have contested it and it's being delayed) and acknowledge that there are paralleling cultural elements to ELL that many of us don't fully understand. Remember what we saw at the home visits and how many staff members were shocked to see how most of our students lived? I know. Bla Bla Blah! I guess what I'm saying is that making parent involvement punitive isn't going to give us accurate representation of a students character. Are our most involved parents of higher achieving students? We can barely keep two or three parents on CSC. We can ask parents to commit to a minimum number of events per year but parent involvement is a long term goal that will continue to be a challenge for us regardless of the students we accept. Then there is the idea that we somehow expect an incoming high school student, freshman, let alone an upper class-men to have the maturity to comprehend how they may have overcome adversity and then write about it? They certainly have but unless we are talking about filling a dozen or so roster spots can we really expect a hundred 15ish year old's to be able to convey their experiences in such a manner that we will be wooed? I thought that teachers were the ones most likely to inspire and help students to realize how their hard work translates into opportunity. There isn't any one strategy that is going to work but the one that rings out most for me is teacher perception and how we learn to see and interpret the grit that we're looking for in our students because it probably won't ring out on a large scale. They haven't learned to be extroverted yet. -Padilla
Have students describe a time when they have overcome adversity, and demonstrated curiosity. In addition:
To interpret the following quotes:
"If you think education is expensive , try ignornace." A Mc Intyree
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Fredrick Douglass
"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." Margaret Mead
"A rose that grew from concrete." Tupac
"When you know better, you do better." Maya Angelou
"Be impeccable with your word." and
"Don't take anything personally." The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz - Montoya
My favorite education quote: Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance." Albert Einstein- LF
There is a great book Karen Taylor told be about concerning the skills like time management and determination. You can download a free sample to your iPad too- The Slight Edge forTeens by John Olson - joz ps- it has a letter to parents at the beginning that serves as a call to action... I am on my iPad so I will learn to copy and paste .
“Dear Parent,
A startling number of young people say they aren’t motivated to achieve, don’t know how to plan or make decisions, and don’t feel a sense of purpose.
That’s why Stuart Johnson created the SUCCESS Foundation. He believes that young men and women thrive best when they first understand themselves and then apply that knowledge to the world around them. He wanted a way to illustrate the importance of clarifying goals, practicing the small efforts necessary for success, and accepting responsibility for one’s own destiny.
We believe that every teen needs to be directed toward a path that enables them to achieve their goals, pursue careers, and become productive citizens. The tools for enhancing skills such as goal setting, dream-building, self-motivation, time management, and creating high self-esteem and a sense of purpose are so very important but often not taught in school. The SUCCESS Foundation believes that providing today’s youth with personal development resources such as SUCCESS for Teens will help them reach their full potential.
I encourage you to share the fundamental life-skills and personal-development philosophies found in these pages and at www.SUCCESSFoundation.org with your teen. Together, we can help make a[…]”
Excerpt From: Jeff Olson, Al Desetta, John David Mann & The SUCCESS Foundation. “SUCCESS for Teens.” SUCCESS Books. iBooks.
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I am most interested in ways to find out what a students does when they do not get immediate satisfaction...If we give the students interview questions before the interview, who will practice them? What parents are willing to help them prepare? -DeAnda
A task (or series of) that would reveal contents of character such as determination, grit and tenacity but also reveal thought process and problem-solving skills (The game I showed is called Flow Free, a free app for Ipad/Iphone) ~Rancourt
Possibly use some of the "grit test" questions? -Fillingham
I think it is important that as their support, we need to understand the way our students live- many take care of siblings when they get home, some deal with addicted parents, others hold jobs to contribute to the family income, and all factors like these have a tremendous impact on the study habits, self esteem, and homework finishing abilities. Many of our parents are supportive by holding two or three jobs, which means there is no one to check if homework is getting done. When TV is blaring in the apartment, and you don't have a quiet place to study, it becomes a challenge. When parents can't afford internet and homework involving technology is given, how does that affect our students? Hunger and issues at with home life are of course a consideration. I agree, we should give them GRIT tests, and equally, we should consider sensitivity training for staff. I think we should also consider an essay prompt given to them ahead of time by their school as part of the application process. This might provide us some insight into their specific lives. - Jozette
Part of trying to find those who have GRIT to overcome that situtation and they are driven to not let that homelife define them, CEC gives them options, resources and support to be successful
Interview Ideas for Parents:
I think having parents answer and interpret the questions and quotes listed above would be good indicators of character and thus acceptence to CEC - Montoya
While the students are interviewing, have the presentation for parents ~Rancourt
I think it is important to have the parents involved- having a set requirement for attendance to 2 after school activities was discussed during our meeting... maybe we should play with this idea more. -Fillingham
I like the quotes above-
I like the quotes too but I think that using quotes favro students that have had the best lit backgrounds over students who have grit. If we give them the quotes before the interview, then we could get a clear indication of who spent the time to prepare
other comments Wow! Hearing and discussing this stuff provokes so much thought as a teacher/parent/former student. I started to contirbute to this on Friday afternoon and just couldn't put my thoughts together at the time and but after reading the letter from 'Slight Edge for Teens' from above it seems to have clarified my thoughts a bit because parts of it come so close to my perspective. The letter clearly identifies the parent as a resource and encourages them to acknowledge their roles in the promotion of self, goal setting, life skills...... for their children.
That brings me to our parents. No.... not OUR parents. Our CEC student parents because they are very different in fact than were our parents. Many, if not most of us had very different experiences and not that our upbringing and supports were perfect and that there weren't things that we needed to overcome but I'm pretty sure that they were very different than that of the current and likely incoming students at CEC. If we don't believe that, we need only to look at the districts upcoming mandated ELL training for teachers (though I've heard that members of the school board have contested it and it's being delayed) and acknowledge that there are paralleling cultural elements to ELL that many of us don't fully understand. Remember what we saw at the home visits and how many staff members were shocked to see how most of our students lived?
I know. Bla Bla Blah! I guess what I'm saying is that making parent involvement punitive isn't going to give us accurate representation of a students character. Are our most involved parents of higher achieving students? We can barely keep two or three parents on CSC. We can ask parents to commit to a minimum number of events per year but parent involvement is a long term goal that will continue to be a challenge for us regardless of the students we accept. Then there is the idea that we somehow expect an incoming high school student, freshman, let alone an upper class-men to have the maturity to comprehend how they may have overcome adversity and then write about it? They certainly have but unless we are talking about filling a dozen or so roster spots can we really expect a hundred 15ish year old's to be able to convey their experiences in such a manner that we will be wooed? I thought that teachers were the ones most likely to inspire and help students to realize how their hard work translates into opportunity.
There isn't any one strategy that is going to work but the one that rings out most for me is teacher perception and how we learn to see and interpret the grit that we're looking for in our students because it probably won't ring out on a large scale. They haven't learned to be extroverted yet. -Padilla